Music/Audio

Smart speaker use is on the rise and a new study from NPR and Edison Research finds 16 percent of Americans own a smart speaker. The survey was conducted in November and Decemb... More

Apple today launched a new dashboard that will allow artists on Apple Music to track fans’ listening and buying habits and view a variety of analytics about their music. The dash... More

Scaeva Technologies will be unveiling its radical redesign of dynamic audio drivers at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show, January 25-28, 2018. Scaeva's patent... More

It's no surprise that many companies are touting Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in products announced at CES. You're making a safe bet if you assume that's an annual occurrence. Howe... More

The music industry is shifting to a streaming model from a download model, spurring new high-res streaming services to prepare for launch and more audio hardware companies here at ... More

Sony always makes home audio products a part of its CES presentations, and 2018 is no difference. Perhaps most notable are the HT-Z9F and HT-X9000F, two soundbars that include Dolb... More

Sony/ATV Music Publishing signed an agreement with Facebook Inc., seeking a share of the social media industry’s burgeoning revenue by letting users post songs from artists like ... More

Facebook and Universal Music Group today announced a global, multi-year agreement under which UMG becomes the first major music company to license its recorded music and publishing... More

Gracenote announced today that it will power advanced music recognition for Mixcloud, the world's fastest growing digital audio streaming platform. Using Gracenote MusicID, the ind... More

Universal Music Group has reached a global, multi-year agreement with YouTube, the companies announced on Tuesday, giving the video platform licenses from all three major record co... More

It’s been a year and a half since “Hadestown” was an Off Broadway hit, but fires are still burning for the folk-rock musical. They’ve blazed up online, where the show’s s... More

One of the goals of the industrial revolution was to have machines simulate physical tasks to produce outputs more efficiently. Fast forward to the present. The purpose of artifici... More

YouTube plans to introduce a paid music service in March, according to people familiar with the matter, a third attempt by parent company Alphabet Inc. to catch up with rivals Spot... More

Amazon Music Unlimited, the company’s streaming service, today announced its expansion into 28 additional countries, offering a catalog of more than 40 million songs and thousand... More

Branded content renewals are generally a tough sell, with renewal rates historically hovering below 40 percent. But branded podcasts appear to be bucking that trend, as advertisers... More

Avid today announced that Grammy® Award-winning pop rock group Maroon 5 relied on the industry-standard digital audio workstation Pro Tools® and its cloud collaboration technolog... More

Branded content renewals are generally a tough sell, with renewal rates historically hovering below 40 percent. But branded podcasts appear to be bucking that trend, as advertisers... More

Record labels have always salivated at the opportunity to re-sell you their catalog in some new, “improved” format. Their latest update comes in the form of high-resolution dig... More

Amazon Music has announced “The U2 Experience”: a first-of-its-kind broadcast for Amazon Music designed with the voice experience in mind. Launching today (Nov. 29) simultaneou... More

We all have that podcast friend—the one who can’t seem to stop referencing podcasts and telling you which ones you have to listen to. But it turns out these “super listeners�... More